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William Cobbett’s State Trials: a complete list

10 January 2018Naomi Clifford

Accounts of State Trials have been published since 1719 when Thomas Salmon (1679–1767) compiled the first collection. Further sets appeared, starting with that published by Sollom Emlyn (1697–1754) in 1730; a third eight-volume edition appeared in 1742  and a fourth 10-volume edition the same year.

William Cobbett (1801), after John Raphael Smith. Courtesy of Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

The Radical journalist (and later author of Rural Rides) William Cobbett (1763–1835) started the Complete Collection of State Trials in 1804. The first 21 of the 33 volumes in the series were edited by Thomas Bayly Howell (1768–1815) and the remaining volumes by his son Thomas Jones Howell (d. 1858).

Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials

I have included one link per volume. Some volumes were published in several editions, so the dates of publication are not necessarily sequential.

Volume 1, 1163-1600 (1809)

Volume 2, 1603-1627 (1809)

Volume 3, 1627-1640 (1809)

Volume 4, 1640-1649 (1809)

Volume 5, 1650-1661 (1810)

Volume 6, 1661-1678 (1810)

Volume 7, 1678-1680 (1810)

Volume 8, 1680-1682 (1810)

Volume 9, 1682-1684 (1811)

Volume 10, 1680-1685 (1811)

Volume 11, 1680-1688 (1811)

Volume 12, 1687-1696 (1812)

Volume 13, 1696- (1812)

Volume 14, 1700-1708 (1812)

Volume 15, 1710-1719 (1812)

Volume 16, 1722-1725 (1812)

Volume 17, 1726-1743 (1813)

Volume 18, 1743-1753 (1813)

Volume 19, 1753-1770 (1816)

Volume 20, 1771-1777 (1814)

Volume 21, 1778-1784 (1814)

Volume 22, 1783-1794 (1817)

Volume 23, 1793-1794 (1817)

Volume 24, 1794 (1817)

Volume 25, 1794-1796 (1818)

Volume 26, 1796-1798 (1818)

Volume 27, 1798-1800 (1818)

Volume 28, 1802-1803 (1820)

Volume 29, 1804-1806 (1821)

Volume 30, 1822, 1806-1808 (1822)

Volume 31, 1823, 1809-1813 (1823)

Volume 32, 1817 (1824)

Volume 33, 1817-1820 (1826)

Volume 34, General Index (1828)

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  1. John Levin says

    27 February 2020 at 2:10pm

    This is a very helpful resource.
    Volume 28 is missing, though. I have located it on Google Books at:
    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2xQwAAAAYAAJ

    Reply
  2. Naomi Clifford says

    27 February 2020 at 2:39pm

    Thanks so much for this, John – I’ve added that one in. Naomi

    Reply

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